Uncanny Landscapes

Uncanny Landscapes S3E9 A mini-episode interview with sound artist and field recordist Stuart Bowditch about his project Constable Ambisonic, plus recordings from the project.    Visit https://www.constableambisonic.co.uk/ for recordings, live performance info, exhibition info and more.    Stuart Bowditch's website is here , with links to other recordings and his social media presence.    Host Jus...

Uncanny Landscapes S3E8 An interview with author Luke Turner about the 'forest' in English culture and his book Out of the Woods.    Out of the Woods is available in all good bookshops (and a lot of bad ones, too) or online via the publisher's portal .    The music in this episode is by Ellie Wilson from her albums about Epping Forest, Echoes: Unearthing Stories of the Forest and the new Listen to...

An interview with author and curator Ben Tufnell about his new pastoral-noir novel Paradise.    Paradise is available from Influx Press . Ben has his own website , too.    The music is by Charles Vaughan from the album A Ritual for Poisoned Land, available to pre-order from Wayside and Woodland Recordings .    Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack. The Substack is free, and include...

An interview with Travis Elborough and Luke Murray (Stonecirclesampler, who also provided this week's music).  Visit Travis's website , or the Stonecirclesampler bandcamp page for more.  Subscribe to the Uncanny Landscapes substack for an exclusive album by Travis Elborough & Stonecirclesampler released 18th March and titled The Past I Remember and The Past I Don't.  Travis has instagram ; so...

An interview with artists Daniel & Clara.    Daniel & Clara's website is here .    The music is from the album Through These Red Windows by Asher Levitas and Margaret Fielder McGinnis, available on bandcamp here .    Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack. The Substack is free, and includes the podcast + more. JH can be found via LinkTree or on Instagram .   Title sounds by...

An interview with historian Katrina Navickas about her new book Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space   Katrina's website is here , and the book is available from Reaktion here .    The music is by Laura Cannell, from her album Medieval Drone Society, available here .    Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack. The Substack is free, and includes the podcast + more....

An interview with artist Leah Gordon    Leah's website is available here , including images from the Monument to the Vanquished Peasant project, here .    The music is by Laura Cannell, from her album Medieval Drone Society, available here .    Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack. The Substack is free, and includes the podcast + more. JH can be found via LinkTree or on Instagram...

An interview with psychogeographer Morag Rose.    Morag's website for the Loiterer's Resistance Movement is here, and she's also on Instagram .   The music is by Lonelady, available from the Lonelady bandcamp page here .    Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack. The Substack is free, and includes the podcast + more. JH can be found via LinkTree or on Instagram .   Title sounds by T...

An interview with filmmaker Natalie Cubides-Brady.    Natalie's website with examples of her work is here , and she's also on Instagram here .    The music is by Fuzzy Lights, from their album Fen Creatures, available via bandcamp here .    Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack. The Substack is free, and includes the podcast + more. JH can be found via LinkTree or on Instagram .  ...

An interview with writer Sam Reid about his book The Pin Jar. Follow Sam on Instagram , or visit the site for Field Zine ; you can read about and order The Pin Jar at Rough Trade Books .  The music is by Milkweed from the album Remscela, and is available from their Bandcamp Page Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack. The Substack is free, and includes the podcast + more. JH can be...

An interview with musician and 'godfather of hauntology' Drew Mulholland.    Follow Drew on Instagram , and check out his bandcamp ! Or get Seance at Hobs Lane from Ghost Box.    Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack. The Substack is free, and includes the podcast + more. JH can be found via LinkTree or on Instagram .   Title sounds by The Belbury Poly, courtesy Ghost Box Records ....

An interview with artist, writer and curator Lally MacBeth about her new book, The Lost Folk. Lally's website is lallymacbeth.org ; the Folk Archive instagram page is linked here . The music on this episode is by Woodchester Piano Company from the album Ambient Tea Party, available via Bandcamp . Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack. The Substack is free, and includes the podcast...

An interview with writer and artist Rob St John about his musical and socially engaged works using field recordings and other media to explore a relationship with place. Rob's website is robstjohn.co.uk and he's also responsible for the music and recordings on this episode, many of which are through Blackford Hill Records . Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack. The Substack is fre...

An interview with writer Ken Worpole about his influential work on the 'New English Landscape' and his new book Brightening from the East. Ken's website is at worpole.net and his publisher is Little Toller Books . Music by Micro Moon from the album Figures in a Landscape . I (Justin) am doing my show The Great Satanic Swindle in April, with dates in Stockton-on-Tees and in Leeds . Host Justin Hopp...

An interview with designer David Knight about 'plotlands' communities in the UK and the work of anarchist writer Colin Ward. David's practice is DK-CM , and the book Mutual Aid, Everyday Anarchism: Essays on Colin Ward is from Five Leaves Publishing . Music by Asher Levitas from his album Peripheral Lands . I (Justin) am doing my show The Great Satanic Swindle in April, with dates in Stockton-on-T...

An interview with folk duo Stick in the Wheel about their recent album A Thousand Pokes, a kind of psychogeographic dig into London through folk song. Check out Stick in the Wheel at their website , including tour dates , and get A Thousand Pokes from Bandcamp . I (Justin) am doing my show The Great Satanic Swindle in April, with dates in Stockton-on-Tees and in Leeds . Host Justin Hopper has an U...

An interview with Elizabeth Bennett about her new book, Performing Folk Songs: Affect, Landscape, Repertoire. Find Elizabeth on Instagram  and find the book via Bloomsbury . The music in this episode is from the new album by Stick in the Wheel, A Thousand Pokes, available from their Bandcamp . Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack. The Substack is free, and includes the podcast + m...

Laura Cannell is a musician based in Suffolk, East Anglia, England. Her work combines experimental, folk, early and medieval music, as well as a number of unique and rare techniques. Her website is https://lauracannell.com/ where you can find out about recordings and gigs, or you can visit her Brawl Records bandcamp site to check out music and buy recordings . The music in this episode is from Lau...

An interview by Justin Hopper with Jez riley French.   Jez riley French is a sound artist and field recordist, who also makes photographs and builds microphones, from Hull, England.   His website is https://jezrileyfrench.co.uk/ where you can find out about activities including the upcoming Murmuration retreat in Scotland (highly recommended), many of his recordings, projects and lectures, or chec...

An interview by Justin Hopper with James Canton. James Canton is a writer and educator; the author of books including Ancient Wonderings, The Oak Papers, and Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of our Ancestors. His website is https://jamescanton.co.uk/ He is also active on Instagram . The music in this episode is Leaves Rustle and the Wind in my Hair by Pefkin, from the album Observations on...

An interview by Justin Hopper with Cheryl E. Leonard. Cheryl E. Leonard is a musician, sound artist and composer who lives in Northern California and works there - or in Antarctice, or Scotland, or Scandinavia... Her practice of making compositions 'of' and 'with' place combines field recordings with music made from original instruments built from natural objects. Her website is https://allwaysnor...

For this special episode, I walked on the South Downs with Jim Jupp of Belbury Poly and Ghost Box Records , discussing the latest BP album The Path. Good friend of the podcast Jim Jupp recently released a new album under his Belbury Poly name, and through Ghost Box, the record label he co-founded with artist/designer Julian House. Rather than a solo piece, however, this one involves a 'band' setti...

An interview by Justin Hopper with artist Kirsty Badenoch and writer Tom Jeffreys. Kirsty and Tom have an exhibition 9-12 November at Staffordshire Street Gallery in Peckham, London, UK, featuring new work made in the remaining patches of boreal forest in northern Scotland. For information on the exhibition, visit Staffordshire St's website.  Kirsty Badenoch and Tom Jeffreys each have a site, too,...

An interview by Justin Hopper with Frances Castle of Clay Pipe Music. Frances Castle is a London-based artist, illustrator and musician who operates Clay Pipe Music, a record label producing beautiful landscape-inspired LPs and CDs of music combining folk, electronica and hauntological themes. Clay Pipe's website is http://www.claypipemusic.co.uk/ Frances's own site is https://www.francescastle.co...

An interview by Justin Hopper with Lally MacBeth and Matthew Shaw, founders of Stone Club. Stone Club is an online and in-person affiliation of people in love with ancient landscapes, founded two years ago by artists MacBeth and Shaw. They'll talk about the background on 'why stone club', the importance of mystical landscape and the work influenced and inspired by the places they inhabit. Stone Cl...